Across
- 4. A state containing several countries or territories
- 5. Collection of hundreds of sacred hymns composed by Aryans of ancient India
- 8. Supply water to their crops
- 9. Complex society that has cities, well-organized government, and workers with specialized job skills
- 10. King of ancient Egypt
- 12. In ancient China, the right to rule given to a dynasty by Heaven, the highest force of nature
- 13. A system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things
- 15. Fixed society class into which a person is born
- 16. The belief in more than one god
Down
- 1. People's beliefs and practices about the existence, nature, and worship of god and gods
- 2. Wide,flat plain in between the Tigris ad Euphrates rivers in present-day,Iraq
- 3. A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire
- 6. Temples were pyramid-shaped brick towers
- 7. A region in the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-shaped from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
- 11. Symbol that stands for word, idea, or sound
- 14. A series of rulers from the same family